Spent the weekend on Dartmoor supporting Heathfield School with their 10 Tors teams. Very enjoyable for me and brought back some good memories. I felt a little jealous of the young people walking on the moors all weekend. I did spend the day walking with some young people from Heathfield doing the Jubilee Challenge. We did the long route of 22km and we all managed to finish in a reasonable time. One of the Ten Tors teams ran out of time and I feel very sad for them that after all the effort they put in over the two days they will just feel like they didn’t succeed. In my view they are still winners and should be proud of themselves, it takes a lot of effort even to get to the start line and no one who puts themselves up for such a challenge should have any sense of failure. There is always another challenge to take on. We sometimes learn more from our disappointments than we do from our success.
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